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Gr8Timur Author

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How to stop auto-archive in Mail

Some of my emails go to Archive folder automatically without chance of being read. Archive appears to be a local (on-my-mac) folder which removes the emails from IMAP. We are 3 people using one IMAP account (support email), moving emails to a local archive folder on my Mac prevents other two co-workers to have access to all emails received. How do I dissable Archive in Mail completely? Thanks.

OS X Mavericks (10.9), Mail app with 10.9.1 update

Posted on Nov 27, 2013 3:38 AM

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Gr8Timur Author

Level 1

24 points

Posted on Nov 27, 2013 1:25 PM

I do not have a rule created to move messages to Archive folder. I also did not create the Archive folder itself, though it is full of messages (new and old). I've seen other people asking about how to turn off Archive feature in Mail on other forums as well.

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Apr 11, 2016 4:09 PM in response to Melinda S.

Melinda,

Amazing... Are you a consultant or do you have a contact I can use to consult you on, in the future? Mail was archiving every sent and draft gmail message; I use google mail for my business. The extraneous archive volume was driving me around in circles. Bless you and thank you.

Jennifer

Apr 25, 2016 6:27 PM in response to Csound1

slayer75

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May 20, 2016 4:14 AM in response to Melinda S.

Thank you Melinda- this helped me- really appreciated. 😍 +1 Squareshot. 😉

May 31, 2016 2:23 PM in response to Melinda S

Thanks Melinda. I, like some others was about to quit the thread when the conspiracy theorists were taking over, but I'm glad I hung in there until I discovered your solution.

Jun 21, 2016 1:30 PM in response to Gr8Timur

I could create a smart mailbox that concatenates all the emails sent to my different accounts, including those from the Gmail archive mailboxes. By this way I keep all my email in a single "All Inbox" mailbox. Hope it helps

JCBoiss

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Jun 26, 2016 2:43 PM in response to Gr8Timur

I have the same problem !!! with the latest version and uncliking All mail doesnot help

Eric Root

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Jun 27, 2016 8:20 AM in response to JCBoiss

You might want to consider starting a new discussion. Since this one is a couple of years old, less people are likely to look at it. You can link to this one.

Sep 28, 2016 11:57 PM in response to Squareshot

I agree, I almost left before I got to the good stuff with all the trash talk going on here. Sheeesh

Oct 6, 2016 5:20 PM in response to William Lloyd

Sorry William, but this is not so. I also have this same problem. I did not create the Archive Folder and I certainly do not move them to the folder, messages automatically go into this folder.

Barney-15E

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Oct 6, 2016 5:26 PM in response to Karenwilliams29

Karenwilliams29 wrote:

Sorry William, but this is not so. I also have this same problem. I did not create the Archive Folder and I certainly do not move them to the folder, messages automatically go into this folder.

No, you didn't create it. Mail uses it if there is an "archive" folder on your email server. For Gmail, Mail maps it to the All Mail label. So, it was your email server which created the mailbox.